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the u.s. military wants to carry out would like to take center stage by giving out bottle accolades to soldiers operating american drones. there's been no response from british police one week off the report revealed a shocking culture of neglect by hospital stall for the deaths of hundreds of patients. government demonstrations in two year anniversary of the protest movement in bahrain reportedly result in a teenager's death. it's the big picture with thom hartmann here and i'll say. lorenzo marvin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture yesterday the president of the n.r.a. published an op ed painting america as the most dangerous place in the world crime and danger lurks around every corner and where guns are our only salvation is defeating all gun control measures by scaring the hell out of america the n.r.a. has new strategy also next week georgia will likely execute an intellectually disabled man even though the u.s. supreme court has declared executing
the u.s. military wants to carry out would like to take center stage by giving out bottle accolades to soldiers operating american drones. there's been no response from british police one week off the report revealed a shocking culture of neglect by hospital stall for the deaths of hundreds of patients. government demonstrations in two year anniversary of the protest movement in bahrain reportedly result in a teenager's death. it's the big picture with thom hartmann here and i'll say. lorenzo...
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supreme court steps in and takes up the case but the u.s. supreme court shouldn't have to step in that's because that highest court in the land has already ruled that executing individuals deemed mentally retarded their phrase not mine violates the eighth the men and the if the man wants ban on cruel and i knew our usual punishment our thanks to a very harsh procedural tact technicality in georgia state law that state has managed to work around the supreme court's ruling warren lee hill isn't the first intellectually challenged individual to be on death row in america he certainly won't be the last everything stays the way it is so it's not time we did away with the death penalty and came up with responsible alternatives to this barbaric practice joining me now is mike farrell actor author and president of death penalty focus like welcome back to the program thanks john nice to be with you thanks for joining us what are your thoughts on the war and lee health case that's in georgia right now well you know it's you it's easy fortunately easy
supreme court steps in and takes up the case but the u.s. supreme court shouldn't have to step in that's because that highest court in the land has already ruled that executing individuals deemed mentally retarded their phrase not mine violates the eighth the men and the if the man wants ban on cruel and i knew our usual punishment our thanks to a very harsh procedural tact technicality in georgia state law that state has managed to work around the supreme court's ruling warren lee hill isn't...
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in what many are calling the largest climate change protest in u.s. history activists marched around the you know white house and demanded the president to move forward with his clean energy proposals advocates say the pipeline would cause irreparable damage to the environment due to the canadian tar sands extraction process it was only a month ago that president obama promised to be a leader and clean energy he reiterated that same promise in front of congress just six days ago at the state of the union address so will the president hold true to his word earlier i was joined by independent journalist well potter i asked him why the pipeline is so controversial. controversy with keystone pipeline really reflects a coming together of a lot of issues that have been really central to the environmental movement for years i mean we have issues of corporations claiming you know an eminent domain to go thousands of miles with this pipeline from canada to texas along the way destroying communities destroying the environment threatening the water supplies and
in what many are calling the largest climate change protest in u.s. history activists marched around the you know white house and demanded the president to move forward with his clean energy proposals advocates say the pipeline would cause irreparable damage to the environment due to the canadian tar sands extraction process it was only a month ago that president obama promised to be a leader and clean energy he reiterated that same promise in front of congress just six days ago at the state of...
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well now to the booming private prison industry in the u.s. which has teamed up with a florida university campus up until recently florida atlantic university has been scrambling to find a sponsor to buy the rights to naming their new seventy million dollar football stadium well they now have a taker boca raton based geo group a private prison company florida atlantic has accepted six million dollars by the private prison giant so in a matter of time this stadium will be called geo group stadium well earlier i spoke to michael brooks he is producer of the majority report and i asked him if you thought this was a strange partnership. yeah stuff only a strange kind of partnership i think what it shows us though is kind of disturbing convergence between. privatizing certain things like prisons like detention centers which. is a questionable area for the markets to be involved in aggressively and the really starving public investment for things like universities and education systems so you're seeing a convergence of two pretty problematic things
well now to the booming private prison industry in the u.s. which has teamed up with a florida university campus up until recently florida atlantic university has been scrambling to find a sponsor to buy the rights to naming their new seventy million dollar football stadium well they now have a taker boca raton based geo group a private prison company florida atlantic has accepted six million dollars by the private prison giant so in a matter of time this stadium will be called geo group...
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for the largest offshore oil spills in history and now quotes the u.s. government blaming the corporation for the disaster that killed eleven rig workers and dumped four million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico you know with even more interest when you have the government so quick to pass the buck and place the blame on b.p. now they work so willing to do that immediately following the disaster in fact they issued to the company even more oil and gas contracts and further solidify their but in love with the corporation if you ask me saw this in giant charade one smoke screen after the other what's comfortable let's break that. coming from the largest military empire in the world it's a wonder how little the establishment discusses the implications of war the downtrodden economy has taken center stage and the discussion of u.s. foreign policy has waned into a mere afterthought this is pose a challenge for many antiwar activists who've been forced to get creative looking for ways to engage and educate people about the perils of u.s. militarism
for the largest offshore oil spills in history and now quotes the u.s. government blaming the corporation for the disaster that killed eleven rig workers and dumped four million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico you know with even more interest when you have the government so quick to pass the buck and place the blame on b.p. now they work so willing to do that immediately following the disaster in fact they issued to the company even more oil and gas contracts and further solidify...
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something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being we know always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be like that duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just didn't put the money to others but it does sound like he did it. johnny and i just yes that's democracy in action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalizing for people and continues to be. because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for thanks
something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being we know always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be...
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something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be like a duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody's got their own voice and even duke is not the conductor he just didn't put so much of it but it doesn't it it. just is not just yes that's good luck or think and action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalizing for people and continues to be so radicalizing because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more and then somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for you th
something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of for and by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be like a...
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something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of foreign by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being we know always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be like that duke ellington jazz orchestra. everybody got their own voice and the duke is not the conductor he just didn't put the money no other but he did gonzalez he did it. johnny and i just yes that's democracy in action at the deepest level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalized him for three years to be surrounded by them because it draws such a stark contrast against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for tha
something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of foreign by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being we know always going to greet us not about unanimity we don't be...
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economy as it works in the world they can work with a banking system that isn't even floated in the u.s. with the public banking institutions that people will but you can look at a google and they will point zero two and we will well if you investigate the thing that no system ever works walled these days and doesn't work well over and more reports than they do when they know they really really have to pull together as a nation to protect the lives of their people and their life they have to the central bank the public thinking system and right now it says completely occupied ever since the one thousand and thirteen federal reserve act but it's just worse and worse with basically decoupling the from any regulation the limit from any obligation even the augers in their own lives so first of all we require a public banking system which we had before which other countries by. the way that's that we want to try to succeed so well it's not just that they undergo it's labor it's actually in the ports and in this race to the bottom it's because they have public benefits in every region they ha
economy as it works in the world they can work with a banking system that isn't even floated in the u.s. with the public banking institutions that people will but you can look at a google and they will point zero two and we will well if you investigate the thing that no system ever works walled these days and doesn't work well over and more reports than they do when they know they really really have to pull together as a nation to protect the lives of their people and their life they have to...
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and that is it for this hour coming up we take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the u.s. that's after the break right here. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their hearts they secretly want but often they miss things like the fact that it was saudi women who ask for the segregation feeling uncomfortable while buying products from men according to a.f.p. you know some people in countries like saudi arabia or north korea might actually like living a radically different lifestyle and even if they don't like living that way well it is their job to fix it not by some sort of western intervention when i want to live in either of those countries not not
and that is it for this hour coming up we take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the u.s. that's after the break right here. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation...
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to long to say the u.s. government currently functions for and by the people would be a funny joke it's a joke we're not on you know most everyone we know magine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being it was going to be just not a good enough we will be like a duke ellington just. everybody's got the only thing we need to do just not to conduct that he just put so much not. just yes that's democracy in action but loving experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. so radicalizing for two point continues to be surrounded by because it draws such a stark contrast up against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more and then somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for thanks to occupy wall street there's a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just c
to long to say the u.s. government currently functions for and by the people would be a funny joke it's a joke we're not on you know most everyone we know magine a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being it was going to be just not a good enough we will be like a duke ellington just. everybody's got the only thing we need to do just not to conduct that...
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perpetuating the paradigm that capitalism is the only way professor i mean and in fact if you look at u.s. foreign policy it seems like the countries that we're focused on it's almost driven by capitalism is the need to squash any alternative i mean is this part of the cancer. of course this is the invasive part of it because what you're flying with all these basically all forms all is protecting these transnational corporate and bank money sequences and extending if you look at any war that's going on elsewhere the iraq war the paradigm example settles libya and also the one that they will in that you speak a little bit against iran first of all they want their oil but not only the wall they want that the first thing that went up in libya was a private bank and the tional bulls control bank they want their banking says they want the credit system they want their markets they want their agriculture the agriculture of iraq was required to have g.m.o. agriculture an industrial oil well derivative inputs as part of the whole occupation so there isn't a single spent that is taking in all fore
perpetuating the paradigm that capitalism is the only way professor i mean and in fact if you look at u.s. foreign policy it seems like the countries that we're focused on it's almost driven by capitalism is the need to squash any alternative i mean is this part of the cancer. of course this is the invasive part of it because what you're flying with all these basically all forms all is protecting these transnational corporate and bank money sequences and extending if you look at any war that's...
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movies glorify war get lots of freebies from said military as long as the message of the film is pro u.s. forces but now movies are taking it a step further check out this trailer for act of valor starring real life navy seals. says if you try to do our country. for your men for the good for you would you. i. i. i. i i i i shall or young man or you pump to join the military at first and group names and launch of many surveillance drone from a landing craft folks look i know times are really tough and in some towns are extremely few options when it comes to careers but there are always other options you don't let yourself become upon the global chess game and military empire that throws you under the bus for nothing more than profit and control. there is is trash to get rid of. but it's also a treasure. it's worth fighting for. and the trap was no way out. my juggling job. to do hack work and get caught when lobbyists money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. i don't the document's. keep up a smart look. there is also. another world behin
movies glorify war get lots of freebies from said military as long as the message of the film is pro u.s. forces but now movies are taking it a step further check out this trailer for act of valor starring real life navy seals. says if you try to do our country. for your men for the good for you would you. i. i. i. i i i i shall or young man or you pump to join the military at first and group names and launch of many surveillance drone from a landing craft folks look i know times are really...
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breaking the set to break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. the government no longer represents the people. the people are going to take structure . we. put into them. the way our economic system or at least not in the. way. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. there's a little turn to angle story. here. the spanish to find out more visit actuality that. happens to people hang over everyone i still find it hard to believe that almost one hundred million people spent yesterday glued to their television set is watching the quintessential marriage between commercialism and athleticism in fact millions openly admit that they watch the super bowl just to be brainwashed by the advertisements yet those thirty second ads cost nearly four million dollars each with no surprise the corporate media had a field day especially with the shocking twist. benefits of playing the super bowl in a dome to stadium you don't have to worry about the weath
breaking the set to break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. the government no longer represents the people. the people are going to take structure . we. put into them. the way our economic system or at least not in the. way. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. there's a little turn to angle story. here. the spanish to find out more...
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five percent of the world's population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail between one thousand eighty seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent of all spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population then it is to educate and. i think that's a great reason and the nand their head lock arms now you know why take me to jail and you got to continue to do this i read about it joe you know watch you continue to tell my brother and my sister and my mom going to body else that looks like me and i read and think it should be a scary thing not just for those you know you know people color minority can but out of us know that we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location yo
five percent of the world's population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail between one thousand eighty seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent of all spending on higher education...
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the set i didn't break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for link please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . she good lumbered surely curbeam was able to build a clue which most sophisticated robots which will unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything to mission to teach music creation and why it should care about humans in the world. this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of. over six. months. this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns if people really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to . a lot less human suffering. which. we cou
the set i didn't break my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for link please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . she good lumbered surely curbeam was able to build a clue which most sophisticated robots which...
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breaking the set to break my preaching for now it stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so small. you think you understand it and then. you hear. and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated. fortunately. in about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year. this is a problem that. substantially was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to. make you know if you. choose to use the consensus you can. choose to get to. choose the stories that in life choose. to. i have the super bowl hangover everyone i still find it hard to believe that almost one hundred million people spent yesterday gl
breaking the set to break my preaching for now it stay tuned to hear why the education system in the u.s. is failing later in the show. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so small. you think you understand it and then. you hear. and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated. fortunately. in about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should...
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perpetuating that this paradigm that capitalism is the only way professor i mean and in fact if you look at u.s. foreign policy it seems like the countries that we're focused on it's almost driven by capitalism is the need to squash any old. chris i mean is this part of the cancer. course this is the invasive part of it because what you're flying with all these basically all forms all is protecting these transnational corporate and bank money sequences and extending if you look at any war that's going on now for the last for the paradigm example settles libya and also the one that they will in that you know speeds a little bit against iran first of all they want their oil but not only the wall they want that the first thing that went up in libya was a private bank and that single kabul's control bank they want their banking says they want the credit system they want the markets they want their agriculture the agriculture of iraq which required to have g.m.o. agriculture an industrial oil well derivative inputs as part of the whole occupation so there isn't a single spent what is taking in all f
perpetuating that this paradigm that capitalism is the only way professor i mean and in fact if you look at u.s. foreign policy it seems like the countries that we're focused on it's almost driven by capitalism is the need to squash any old. chris i mean is this part of the cancer. course this is the invasive part of it because what you're flying with all these basically all forms all is protecting these transnational corporate and bank money sequences and extending if you look at any war...
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and now to the booming private prison industry in the u.s. which has teamed up with a florida university campus and up until recently florida atlantic university has been scrambling to find a sponsor to buy the rights to naming their new seventy million dollars football stadium they now have a taker boca raton based geo group is a private prison company florida university has accepted six million dollars by the private prison giant so in a matter of time this stadium will be called geo group stadium and it will have that name for twelve years well for more on this i'm joined in a moment by michael brooks he is a producer producer of the majority of report where to be talking about the prison industrial complex and this interesting partnership now welcome there michael. good to be with you so a private prison company is sponsoring this university in florida a strange kind of partnership. yeah it's definitely a strange kind of partnership i think what it shows us though is kind of disturbing convergence between. privatizing certain things like
and now to the booming private prison industry in the u.s. which has teamed up with a florida university campus and up until recently florida atlantic university has been scrambling to find a sponsor to buy the rights to naming their new seventy million dollars football stadium they now have a taker boca raton based geo group is a private prison company florida university has accepted six million dollars by the private prison giant so in a matter of time this stadium will be called geo group...
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all go back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the u.s. justice department plans to file suit against an import for its role in the financial crisis the brought the american economy to its needs is this really about punishing the banks who caused one of the worst recessions in history and do you want to draw on using thermal imaging to keep track of you inside your own house like it or not this could become a reality of life in the united states i'll tell you how we fight back against this invasion of our privacy in tonight's deal we take. in the best of the rest of the news banks alone didn't crash our economy a few years ago in fact some of the biggest fraudsters in the run up to the financial crisis in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight for the credit rating agencies like s. and p. and moody's they gave prime ratings to junk mortgages it's been alleged that many of these ratings agencies actually took kickbacks from the banks to supply favorable ratings which ended up growing investors now the wall street journal is repor
all go back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour the u.s. justice department plans to file suit against an import for its role in the financial crisis the brought the american economy to its needs is this really about punishing the banks who caused one of the worst recessions in history and do you want to draw on using thermal imaging to keep track of you inside your own house like it or not this could become a reality of life in the united states i'll tell you how we...